The lockdowns were meant to hasten the return to the old normal, but almost six months after the novel coronavirus crossed into India, there is little sign of that. Debilitated by the rising number of cases, major cities are grappling simultaneously with an overstretched medical system and a paralysed economy. A bigger worry is the steady spread of the virus to ill-equipped small towns and cities that are already ravaged by loss of income and livelihoods
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